Author: Hfallon

  • TEEING IT UP

    We are looking forward to our first round of golf today, and have chosen to play at “Batalha”, a 27 hole club, and of the two options for golf on the island, this is the closest one to our hotel in Ribeira Grande. It is about a 20 minute ride to the course, and I…

  • ZOMBIE LAND

    A very reliable source once told me that the only way to make overseas travel work, is to immediately accept the time of day wherever you land, and force yourself to function as you normally would at home. If you arrive at 11pm, go to bed……..even though your head knows it is really only 5pm………if…

  • “AND WE ARE OFF”

    Once again the Travelling Triumvirate, the Touring Triad, the Trip Trifecta …….are hitting the road on yet another adventure……this one begins in the Azores, a mid Atlantic Ocean, 12 day stopover, before continuing on for a 3 week stint in mainland Portugal. We hope to cover a lot of ground, and explore different areas of…

  • TESTING 1,2,3

    YES……COMING SOON……A LITTLE RUSTY ON MY WEBSITE SKILLS SO TRIAL RUN HERE

  • Take Me Home

    There is no big rush today…….loads of time to make the roughly 3-4 hour trip from Killarney to Malahide, where we started this journey, just north of Dublin and very close to the airport. Staying again at the Grand Hotel. We have no plans, but Jutta thinks we should stop in Adare and visit Adare…